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APRIL 25, 2024

After really disappointing shareholders during the period after its initial public offering in May 2019, this transportation-as-a-service stock has been crushing it more recently, up a phenomenal 120% in the past year alone. That was up 17% year over year, and it was 165% higher than pre-pandemic 2019.

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JULY 24, 2024

Its revenue rose at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 65% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2024 (which ended this January), its stock surged 265% over the past five years, and it now serves about 60% of the Fortune 500 companies. That's a bold claim, but SentinelOne has grown like a weed since its public debut in 2021.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Revenue, for example, has surged 10x over the last five years, from $250 million in 2019 to $2.8 Similarly, CrowdStrike's free cash flow -- which was negative in 2019 -- now stands at $3.59 billion as of this writing. CRWD data by YCharts CrowdStrike's stock price has increased, too.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

was founded in 1944 and held its initial public offering (IPO) in May 2019 at $27 per share. This turned out to be a tough time to go public, as the company's business suffered after the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020. What does Parsons do? Parsons, which is based in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C.,

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JUNE 10, 2024

The company was formed in 1993 and took 14 years to launch its initial public offering (IPO) in 2007. Between the IPO in 2007 and 2019, the stock had its ups and downs, rising about 174%. By the end of 2019, it traded at $24 per share. But Supermicro has been around longer than five years.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) has been a publicly traded stock since March 2019. billion from its initial public offering (IPO). Initially, the ride-hailing business planned on selling about 30.8 The company sold 32.5 million shares at $72, raising about $2.3 million shares at a price range between $62 and $68.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

operations on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the person said, asking not to be named as the talks are not public. While it’s not yet clear how much equity will be sold to investors, the initial public offering would raise roughly $540m if the company sold a 20% stake. Recent listings in Tokyo include Rakuten Bank Ltd.’s

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JANUARY 5, 2024

From IPO hype to survival mode It seems like eons ago, but it was in May 2019 when Beyond Meat stock debuted for public trading at $46 per share amid hype and buzz in the financial press. Brown and Beyond Meat certainly can't be faulted for having their initial public offering (IPO) less than a year before the COVID-19 crisis.

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JULY 21, 2024

Those strengths have enabled CrowdStrike to grow like a weed since its initial public offering (IPO) in 2019. From fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2024 (which ended this January), its revenue rose at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 65%, from $250 million to $3.06

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Zscaler went public in 2018. From fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2024, revenue grew at a compound annual rate of 48%. That would represent its slowest annual revenue growth rate since its initial public offering (IPO). That growth was driven by the rapid expansion of the zero trust and cloud-native cybersecurity markets.

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

Private equity firm Apollo-owned Aspen Insurance on Wednesday filed its paperwork for an initial public offering in the United States, according to a regulatory filing. The company did not disclose details about the size of the offering, but is reportedly targeting a $4 billion valuation. billion.

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JUNE 19, 2023

Shares have climbed 45-fold since that initial public offering (IPO) and 375% since the beginning of 2019. It grew much slower in 2019 -- two years before the following chart -- and, understandably, in 2020. It routinely trades north of 50 times earnings -- nearly double of most other restaurant stocks, or more.

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AUGUST 24, 2024

As you can see from the chart below, the stock is down sharply from its 2019 initial public offering (IPO). First, the stock crashed after a successful IPO as investors believed the money-losing company was overvalued in 2019. LYFT data by YCharts. Lyft stock has fallen in three separate episodes. Citadel bought 4.4

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Since the company's 2019 initial public offering, the stock has returned a massive 285%. TransMedics Group (NASDAQ: TMDX) has emerged as a medical devices industry leader, capturing strong growth and climbing profitability from its organ transplant delivery system.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-native cybersecurity services, went public at $34 in 2019. From fiscal 2019 to 2024 (ended this past January), CrowdStrike's revenue had a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 65%. It now trades at about $300 but has still never split its stock.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

The provider of cloud-based services debuted on Wall Street in 2019 at $15 per share when cloud computing was rising in popularity. At the end of last year, Cloudflare reported more than 160,000 paying customers, nearly double the number it had after its 2019 initial public offering. Customers include U.S.

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AUGUST 31, 2024

From the company's initial public offering (IPO) in 2005 through 2021, Omega Flex produced total returns more than six times higher than those of the S&P 500 index.

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JUNE 16, 2024

From their initial public offering in September 2019 to their peak in January 2021, shares of Peloton Interactive (NASDAQ: PTON) skyrocketed by 550%. That monster run would've turned a $155,000 initial investment into $1 million at its all-time high in about 16 months.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

I'd be putting it lightly if I said it has been a roller coaster ride for DraftKings ' (NASDAQ: DKNG) stock since its July 2019 initial public offering (IPO). Five years ago, in Q2 2019, this number was just 1.8 At the end of the second quarter, DraftKings had 8.4 million unique users in the past 12 months.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Allowing for currency conversions, the vehicle edges ahead of Blackstone Capital Partners VIII, the largest private equity fund raised so far, which closed in 2019 on $26.2 The Luxembourg-headquartered firm has secured at least €25 billion in commitments for CVC Capital Partners IX, according to three sources familiar with the fundraising.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

One such start-up, Cerebras, just filed a prospectus ahead of an impending initial public offering (IPO). Cerebras sold its first AI chips in 2019 and has recently seen a big acceleration in demand, leading to this recent IPO filing. After reading, I think Cerebras is a name every Nvidia investor should monitor closely.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

In 2019, Nestle sold its US ice cream operation to Froneri for $4 billion. Froneri was created in 2016 when the Swiss company merged its European ice cream business with PAI-owned R&R.

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JUNE 21, 2023

EQT said it invested in the company in 2019 and since then Ellab has tripled its revenue, earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization and number of employees, while experiencing around 20% annual organic revenue growth and completing 15 add-on acquisitions.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

The company was only established in 2016 and began generating revenue in 2019. Investing in initial public offerings can be risky because it often involves businesses that are in their early growth stages -- as is the case with Cerebras. That's already more than the $78.7 million it posted the year before that.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) turned positive in 2019 and grew at a CAGR of 160% over the following three years. From 2019 to 2022, its net sales rose at a CAGR of 66%. The company still generates most of its revenue from the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At any rate, CrowdStrike's stock has rewarded investors since its debut in 2019. In other words, $50,000 invested in CrowdStrike's Initial Public Offering (IPO) on June 12, 2019, would be worth $260,000 as of the time of this writing. Its total return since then is more than 423% or almost 43% annually.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Slootman had been CEO since 2019 and led Snowflake through its successful initial public offering and continued business expansion. But in conjunction with its earnings release, the company announced that Slootman had retired from his position as CEO. The management transition came as a shock to investors.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

After years of struggle following its 2019 initial public offering, the stock has reached record highs and the company has achieved its first-ever annual profit. Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER) seems to have turned the corner. Let's take a look.

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AUGUST 22, 2024

Microsoft Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is no stranger to turning people into millionaires, with its stock up 430,000% since its initial public offering in 1986. In 2019, with seemingly the foresight of the century, the company invested $1 billion into ChatGPT creator OpenAI.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Shares are up 217% since 2019. billion in 2019 to nearly $6.5 Founded in 2004, the company debuted via an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange in 2016. Shares are up an eye-popping 1,730% since 2019, recording an incredible 78% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over that period.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

A total of 32.26m ordinary shares will be offered in its initial public offering, trading under the symbol BIRK. Actress Frances McDormand padded on stage at the Oscars in February 2019 in a yellow pair under a pink gown — vindicating the idea that footwear does not need to be painful to be glamorous.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

have been exploring options for the London-based data center operator since at least 2019. Global Switch was initially eyeing an initial public offering in Hong Kong. The owners of Global Switch — Chinese steelmaker Jiangsu Shagang Group Co. and Avic Trust Co.

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AUGUST 23, 2024

The stock of the plant-based meat producer, which almost reached $240 per share soon after its May 2019 initial public offering (IPO), now sells in the $6 per share range as of the time of this writing. Beyond Meat (NASDAQ: BYND) stock has experienced a wild ride over its trading history.

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MARCH 22, 2024

The online pet products retailer was spun out from PetSmart in 2019, and it soared from its initial public offering (IPO) price of $22 to a record high of $118.69 Chewy (NYSE: CHWY) has taken investors on a wild ride over the past five years. But today, Chewy's stock trades at about $17.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Snowflake When Buffett bought Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) stock at its initial public offering (IPO) price in September 2020, it led to a bit of head-scratching around Wall Street. But among the holdings in the conglomerate's portfolio today, two companies in particular look like they're worth buying now for the long haul.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

If it managed to restore customer confidence in its platform, the firm is likely to see a continuation of its history of revenue growth that stretches back to its 2019 initial public offering. Data by YCharts.

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OCTOBER 26, 2024

Since the company's 2019 initial public offering, the stock has gained over 800%, significantly outperforming the S&P 500 index. CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has emerged as a global leader in cybersecurity, capturing strong demand for its cloud-based platform while delivering a spectacular return for investors.

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